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Went to bed at around 4:30am as I'm buried in a time sensitive project. Mrs. PB leaves @ about 6:15am for work... at 6:35 she calls me to tell me the keys she grabbed won't unlock the car (she grabbed mine which only work manually) and demands I grab her set and run them out to her (I'm in bed... pair of shorts on and nothing else). Mind you - it's freezing out (a tick just above 0°C) and it's pouring rain.
She's in a panicked mood which usually means she's impatient and demanding (we are very much the same when either of us gets in this mood)... more importantly we both stop paying attention to what's we're doing when we start to trip out so of course I threw on jeans and hauled ass downstairs while still on the phone with her... while doing so I begged her to relax and stand in our little garage area out of the rain, that I'd be down in 30 seconds.
15 seconds go by - I'm in the stairwell and I hear the wretched awful sound of our car alarm going off along w/the loud shrill of a 5'4" blond whom is late for work... I begin to run while squeezing the shit out of the 'unlock' button (this will shut off the car alarm)... *squeeze *squeeze *squuuuuueeeeeeeze *shrilllllll *squeeeze SHRILLLLLLNESS (and her punching the driver's side window once I could see her)... *Beep *Beep... alarm off... shrillness subsides. She then looks at me w/exhausted eyes and gently says "Thank you".
I smile, give her a big hug... smack her on the ass and point north as that's the direction she needs to start driving... she giggles... allllll is well again.
Nope.
20 mins go by... I'm back in bed... CPAP on, pup cuddled in on one side - kitty on the other and out of nowhere the front door SLAMS open. Both animals panic as my name is shouted at the top of my wife's lungs.
I of course spring up and rip the CPAP nonsense off my head and run to her... "It's gone... I can't find it... there's no way it survived... it's gone... it's just gone... IT'S GONE!!!"
"What's gone, Babe?!!!"
"My phone... it was on top of the car when I left. I was so late for work and angry that I must have left it on top of the car."
I'm dizzy and standing in my underwear @ 7am wondering how to fix this... the phone could be anywhere. So, I said "fuck it... let's go retrace the path you just drove and see what we find".
It only took 5 minutes but we found it!! We drove slowly in rush hour traffic (raining / foggy... ugly out). It was sitting in the middle of the main road right in the turning lane about 1/3 a meter from actual traffic... 100% undamaged. When I bought the phones I was sure to get lexan screen guards and to wrap these fuckers in otterboxes as my wife and I are complete dicks to our phones.
She was 35 minutes late for work this morning... but all is well... I just wanted you all to know. <3
- This is why I work from home. And prefer to be single.shapesalad
- You deserve a PonyHusband of the Year award! respect!uan
- Cool story Kevin. But, shame on you for marrying a blonde ;)OBBTKN
- Thankful I don't have to deal with shit like that.robthelad
- I'm dying at the very familiar thought of "Ah, it's morning. I can finally sleep" compounded with you locking in Vader-style with your pets.garbage
- I love my girlfriend for not being this way ever with me.cannonball1978
- To be clear—this was just a bad morning for her. My Wife is a stable badass who spends 12+ hours a day, 5+ days a week working with schizophrenia patients.PonyBoy
- I need a drink after this poststoplying
- It's not a bad thing to live with another's foibles. They, after all, have to live with yours. +1 PonyBoy, this sounds like a page out of my life :)Nairn